7 Movies Starring Joaquèn Cosio

Love, Pain and Vice Versa

Love, Pain and Vice Versa

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-10-30

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Mexico

Runtime:

86 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (308 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Alex Marino (screenplay)

Blas Valdez (story)

Fullplot:

Chelo is an architect, withdrawing from her social life because of realistic dreams she's having of a romance with a strange man. She's convinced the man is real, out there, destined to be with her. She reports a rape to the police, describing the man of her dreams to a sketch artist. The police find a suspect: he's Marcos, a physician. Chelo tells the police this is not the man who raped her, but now she has Marcos in her sights. Her plan for him to fall in love with her is complicated by his having a fiancèe. What can Chelo do? Meanwhile, Marcos has violent dreams about an unfamiliar woman. Chronologies overlap, glass breaks. Can a mind lie to itself?

A Better Life

A Better Life

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-07-28

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (12520 Reviews)

Director:

Chris Weitz

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Eric Eason (screenplay)

Roger L. Simon (story)

Fullplot:

Carlos Galindo is a decent man, a Mexican single parent working as a gardener in California to raise Luis,his fourteen-year-old son,whom Carlos is frightened will drift into local gang culture. Carlos buys a truck for his work with money loaned by his sister but a shifty new employee steals it from him and,though Carlos and Luis track the thief down,he has sold the truck. Father and son bond as they reclaim the vehicle from the pound but Carlos attracts police attention,making his future in America uncertain when it is discovered that he is an illegal immigrant.

Te presento a Laura

Te presento a Laura

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-10-29

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Mexico

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (430 Reviews)

Director:

Fez Noriega

Fullplot:

Laura is a girl who saves the life of a suicidal young actor and after that she's dedicated to help him to overcome his crisis while at the same time together are performing the crazy tasks that laura has a in a list of things to be done before dead and that duty most be complete before the end of the month of April, during that time is being born among them something more than a friendship.

El Narco

El Narco

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-09-03

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Mexico

Runtime:

145 min

Rated:

NC-17

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (5089 Reviews)

Director:

Luis Estrada

Cast:

Writer:

Luis Estrada (screenplay)

Luis Estrada (story)

Jaime Sampietro (screenplay)

Jaime Sampietro (story)

Fullplot:

Benjamin Garcia, Benny, is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the narco business, in which has for the first time in his life, an spectacular rise surrounded by money, women, violence and fun. But very soon he'll discovers that criminal life does not always keeps his promises. Epic black comedy about the world of Mafia and organized crime, HELL helps us to understand what everybody is asking: What is happening in Mexico today?

Pastorela

Pastorela

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-11-11

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Mexico

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (668 Reviews)

Director:

Emilio Portes

Fullplot:

La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas

La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-11-09

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Mexico

Runtime:

116 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (622 Reviews)

Director:

Luis Mandoki

Cast:

Writer:

Diana Cardozo (adaptation)

Rafael Ramèrez Heredia (novel)

Fullplot:

In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doèa Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecèn Umèn, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.

The Perfect Dictatorship

The Perfect Dictatorship

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-10-16

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Mexico

Runtime:

143 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (2263 Reviews)

Director:

Luis Estrada

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Luis Estrada (original writer)

Luis Estrada (screenplay)

Luis Estrada

Jaime Sampietro (original writer)

Jaime Sampietro (screenplay)

Fullplot:

TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?

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